Tag: Colorado Buffaloes

Who says Super Bowl bye week is uneventful? The announced relaunch of the XFL headlines a busy week, and naturally, kicks off our Q&A. XFL, will you watch? (and if not, what could entice you to watch?) — Alicia de Artola (@PenguinOfTroy) January 25, 2018 Short answer: No. I vividly remembering the original incarnation of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY_DcN001NI "They call it in some circles the Hail Mary. It was certainly perfect..." - Keith Jackson, Colorado/Michigan game When you write about a legend like Keith Jackson, how do you pick the game that best exemplifies his broadcast career? That's a challenge. You're talking about a man who has called the Olympics, baseball, even…

During this postseason of The Worst, we're going to go through the big bowl games and choose some less than stellar moments for certain teams. For this edition, we're kicking off the bowl fun with the Orange Bowl. This is a bowl that has been around for 80-plus years. Throughout that time, it has become…

Conference championship games are more of a recent phenomenon when it comes to the last century-plus of college football. We really didn't start having these games until the '90s. One of those conference championship games that started in the 90s was the Big 12, which came together when the Big Eight decided to bring in…

Welcome to this edition of the Worst where occasionally, we like to mix things up a little bit. For this week's installment, we are going into the past, but not very far. We're traveling to last week's set of games. These were the five worst performances of Week 8, for various reasons. 5. San Diego…

Pac-12 Country served as the epicenter for college football's chaotic past weekend, with two of the four Top 10-ranked teams bounced coming from the West. Not to downplay either of the other two upsets that rocked the national landscape, but LSU beating Auburn was certainly less surprising than Cal dominating Washington State on Friday night…

So, it seems this college football season is heeding the words of former Miami Hurricanes tight end: C'mon, fellas, let's get weird. G-Reg's alma mater warrants a kickoff mention in this week's Four Downs. Miami snapped its seven-game losing streak to rival Florida State in dramatic fashion. The U's come-from-behind victory over the 'Noles provided…

Bryce Love is following the same path from the Bay Area to New York that previous Stanford running backs Toby Gerhart and Christian McCaffrey traversed. Love's 303-yard rushing performance against Arizona State propelled him into the forefront of early-season Heisman conversation, and puts him on a pace to break Barry Sanders' single-season rushing record. At…

Last December's Pac-12 Championship Game went to halftime with Washington ahead of Colorado 14-7, and I was ecstatic. It was my fourth year covering the Pac-12 Championship, and the three previous installments ended in scores of Stanford 38, Arizona State 14; Oregon 51, Arizona 14; and Stanford 41, USC 22. Each of those three contests…

The non-conference schedule winds down in Week 3 for a majority of Pac-12 programs, and the league closes out with some fascinating contests. Five Pac-12 teams play road out-of-conference games, starting Friday night. Four of those are at Group of Five opponents' homes. Arizona gets it started at UTEP Friday, UCLA kicks off early Saturday…

Welcome to The Worst! It’s a list of the worst things to occur in college football, mainly losses. If your school is picked, trust me, it will be painful and you will probably hate me for bringing up these bad memories. Good news, B1G fans: Your teams are not featured. But don't rest for too…

PASADENA, Calif. -- With UCLA trailing Texas A&M 38-10 at halftime of Sunday's matchup at the Rose Bowl, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott was not prepared to publicly write off the conference's unblemished Week 1 record. "This gave us a chance to research what kind of record they'll set if they come back and win," Scott…

Week 0 provided a sip, a nice sample, of The Open Man Saturday Six-Pack. The postponement of Richmond-Sam Houston State whittled six down to five, making this the first full sixer of the 2017 season; well, sort of. With its move to Waco and a Friday night date on Week 1, Richmond-Sam Houston State rounds…

For those new around here, let me share something that will become abundantly clear over the course of the college football season: I love the Heisman Trophy. For all its faults, my youthful fascination with the award endures. That's a contributing factor to The Open Man's Heisman Top 10, a regular breakdown and ranking of…

Like a 250-pound running back barreling out of Alabama's backfield, The Open Man College Football Preview Listapalooza simply cannot be stopped! The emergence of surprise contenders is one of my personal favorite inevitabilities of any college football season. Who could have predicted Troy ascending to the Top 25 a season ago -- and I like…